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' PLUG TOBACCO. No. 284,321. Patented Sept. 4, 1883.

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j A UNITED TATES JOHN N ORBURN -AND CHARLES A. NORBUBN, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA- SAID JOHN NORB URN ASSIGNOR TO SAID CHARLES A. NORBURN.

PLUG-TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,321, dated September 1883.

Applieation filed July 15,1882. (No model.)

1 aZZ whom it may concern:-

Be it known that we, JOHN NORBURN and CHARLES A. N oRBUnN, citizens of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useftl Improvements in the Manufacture of Plug Chewing-Tobacco; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a' part of this specification.

- This invention relates to an improved article of manufacture, consisting of a peculiarlyformed plug of tobacco, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

. Our invention has for its object to provide certain means whereby plug-tobacco can .be placed upon the market in such shape that while retaining its form of aplug of usual size it is readily separable into smaller quantities for convenience in use, as more fully hereinafter specified. I

To this end our invention consists in forming, in any suitable manner, any desired numbero f small plugs of tobacco ofsuitable shape and of about the size of an ordinary chew, and in uniting these small plugs so as to form a single plug, and covering the same with a suitable wrapper,as more fully hereinafter specified. i

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of one of the small plugs of which our improved plug is formed. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view, showing a seriesof such small plugs as arranged previous to the application of the wrapper; and Fig. 3 repre sents a perspective View of the completed plug.

In carrying out our invention we take a quantity of leaf-tobacco, properly prepared in the usual manner for the manufacture of plugtobacco say about halfa leaf. This isrolled or otherwise formed into a plug, A, and a'number of such plugs-gene1ally'about twenty are placed together in a suitable mold or form and subj ected to sufficient pressure to cause them to adhere together and form a solidplug, B, with sufficient resistance to prevent the parts from dropping asunder under ordinary circumstances, but still allow them to be separated when a slight strain is applied. being thus compressed the wrapper O, which may be the natural leaf, is applied in the same manner of ordinary plug-tobacco, and the plug is re compressed, which gives it its final finish.

It is evident that the small plugs of tobacco may be formed by cutting up larger plugs, and then uniting them, as before mentioned, without departing from the spirit of our invention, as theobject of the invention is the convenience of the user in dividing the plug, which could be as well effected, if theplug were constructed of smaller plugs, by cutting as by form= ing such plugs primarily by rolling, molding,

or otherwise.

We are aware that bars of tobacco have been formed of separateplugs and covered with a common wrapper, so that the plugs may be separated for retailing, tially cut for the same purpose have been used; but these we do not claim.

After and alsothat bars par or any artificial leaf,

as the wrapper We are aware that fine-cut tobacco has been mixed with mucilaginous substances and formed into wafers and lozenges, and alsothat fine-cut tobacco has been wrapped with to-- bacco-leaves and subjected to pressure, each approximating the size of a chew; and such methods are not sought to be covered in this application.

Having thusdescribedour invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I As an article of manufacture, a plug of tobacco for consumers use, consisting of a number of small plugs approximating the size of a chew, pressed together and united, so as to form a single plug, and then covered by a'suitable wrapper, and finally pressed to form an integral plug from which the smallerplugs may be readily separated, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN NORBURN. CHARLES n. NORBURN.

Witnesses: I

R. 0. HERNDON, J os. H. BLAOKWELL. 

